ordinaire

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He will go somewhere else and have vin ordinaire, and pay for it, that's all.

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  • A vin ordinaire, which now at restaurateur's would cost three francs, was then furnished at the hotels for fifteen sous: a Larose, Lafitte, Margot, such as we are now paying eight or ten francs a bottle for, did not cost a third. —  Reminiscences of Captain Gronow
  • If you are a Frenchman, you call it Vin de Table or just vin ordinaire, the Italian call it Vino de Tavolo - a designation that a wine is table wine, or just ordinary. —  Good Grape: A Wine Manifesto
  • Préparer la pâte à cupcake: mélanger les ingrédients secs entre eux: la farine ordinaire, le sucre, la levure et l'expresso. —  A Foodie Froggy in Paris
  • The vin ordinaire is not sufferable: au reste_, here is the carte_, and Monsieur has only to choose Tis a reality, my friend, that I was not then exactly thinking of--but breakfast I must, and will. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
  • When au sec_, I fed at Flictoteau's--we called him l'empoisonneur_--where hundreds of students got a meal of three courses with half a bottle of ordinaire, and not so bad either, for thirty sous It happened one night at Bobinot's that I sat in the front row of the stage-box, and by me a very pretty, modest, and respectable young girl, with her elder relations or friends. —  Memoirs
 

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  1. French: an abbreviation for vin ordinaire, ordinary (table) wine: see ordinary.
 

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